Comments on: To WWW or Not WWW : Canonicalization, SEO and the .htaccess Fix http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/ Web Design, Development & Consulting Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:31:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Travis http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-325 Travis Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:54:14 +0000 http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-325 What if you want to use the non WWW version as your canonical url? In other words, you want everything pointing to: http://yourdomain.com Then what would the code look like? Travis What if you want to use the non WWW version as your canonical url? In other words, you want everything pointing to: http://yourdomain.com

Then what would the code look like?

Travis

]]> By: Travis Langley http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-330 Travis Langley Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:36:28 +0000 http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-330 Hi Travis, I believe this should do the trick. <code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]</code> Pretty much like the first example, but in line 1 we remove the "!" (respresents NOT and meant the url did not start with www, but now we are rewriting if it does start with www), and in the second line we leave the www out of the RewriteRule. Again, remember to replace domain.com in the example above with your domain name. Hi Travis,

I believe this should do the trick.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Pretty much like the first example, but in line 1 we remove the “!” (respresents NOT and meant the url did not start with www, but now we are rewriting if it does start with www), and in the second line we leave the www out of the RewriteRule.

Again, remember to replace domain.com in the example above with your domain name.

]]> By: Cola Tax & Solutions http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-671 Cola Tax & Solutions Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:28:47 +0000 http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-671 Great stuff! Do you know if it is possible to do this with Microsoft Live Small Business? If so please contact me! Great stuff! Do you know if it is possible to do this with Microsoft Live Small Business? If so please contact me!

]]> By: Travis Langley http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-672 Travis Langley Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:30:34 +0000 http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-672 I am not familiar with Microsoft Live Small Business, but I believe it probably runs on an IIS server. The example above uses .htaccess which works on Apache servers, not IIS. However, you may look into isapi rewrite to accomplish the same thing. It is designed to work on IIS servers and you can get more detailed information about isapi rewrite by visiting http://www.isapirewrite.com/. I am not familiar with Microsoft Live Small Business, but I believe it probably runs on an IIS server. The example above uses .htaccess which works on Apache servers, not IIS.

However, you may look into isapi rewrite to accomplish the same thing. It is designed to work on IIS servers and you can get more detailed information about isapi rewrite by visiting http://www.isapirewrite.com/.

]]> By: Holly http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-1940 Holly Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:24:58 +0000 http://www.travislangley.com/weblog/2007/08/01/to-www-or-not-www-canonicalization-seo-and-the-htaccess-fix/#comment-1940 Cool, thanks so much for this! I've been looking for a nice, simple explanation of canonicalization issues. Good job! Cool, thanks so much for this! I’ve been looking for a nice, simple explanation of canonicalization issues. Good job!

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